Compliance-Bengaluru-Associate-Business Unit Compliance

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

14 days ago

Job Category: AssociateJob Description:Our division prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm's culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these through the firm's enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm's second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firm's compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads the firm's responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries. You'll be part of a team with members from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, such as law, accounting, sales, and trading. We look for those who possess sound judgment, curiosity, and are able to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape.PWM CompliancePWM Compliance takes an active role in assisting the PWM Management to supervise the PWM Business and provides on-going advice on various topics. The PWM Compliance team in Bengaluru is a part of the Global team which helps provide Compliance advice and support to the PWM business in Asia and EMEA covering a broad spectrum of responsibilities, including Surveillance, Programmatic Reviews, review of trades for Cross Border issues, pre-trade approvals, Training, Client Guidelines and Projects where we collaborate with Business and Engineering teams.Principal Responsibilities:

Grasp Business, Compliance, Regulatory rules and Policies
Perform surveillance including but not limited to holdings, positions, personal account trading and restricted trading
Seeking and implementing automated solutions (for manual processes and anticipated future requirements), which will involve providing direction and requirements to Engineering as well as acting in partnership with Engineering
Provide guidance to sales on appropriate interpretation and application of policies and procedures
Reviewing trades to ensure that they are in line with the regulations and policies and help approve them in a timely manner
Collaborating with Legal and Business to review Client Guideline documents to ensure they can be monitored or amend the language in the contract if otherwise
Reviewing Cross Border rules before the prospectus for Private Equity products are sent to clients
Performing Programmatic reviews to investigate if we have appropriate controls in place and studying patterns to identify anomalies
Escalate situations, as appropriate, to relevant divisional compliance officers and business unit managers
Assist regional compliance in ongoing projects, responding to changes in the firm's businesses and changes in regulation
Taking ownership of processes and controls of the team, driving the development of methods to improve processes and / or controls to ensure that these are efficient, effective and relevant

Leverage strong communication and relationship-building skills in frequent interaction with other areas of the firm and professionals across the globe

Complying with internal controls, policies and procedures and regularly reviewing and updating procedures and training documentation
Communicate regularly with stakeholders and senior management on outstanding surveillance issues, findings and status of other assigned compliance projects

Basic Qualifications:

Previous experience in Compliance, Surveillance, Internal Audit or other control function.
Inquisitive and proactive in identifying risks and proposing solutions
Good interpersonal skills and effective written/oral communication skills
Organized, detail-oriented, enthusiastic professional with a strong work ethic
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise sound and balanced judgment.
Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, prioritize effectively and work under high pressure environment
Good understanding of the fundamentals of the financial industry
Advanced MS Office skills preferred, including experience with large data sets and proficiency in data manipulation and presentation
Ability to work with a variety of senior and junior people, and build smooth working relationships.
Highest attention to detail.
Team player - one who can prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment.
Entrepreneurial inclination - ability to work alone and act as project manager.

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